Wire-stretcher



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAM V AN WIE, OF CHESHIRE, NEW YORK.

WlRE-STRETCHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,399, dated December 15, 1891. Application filed July so, 1891. Serial No. 401,194. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABRAM VAN IE, a Citlv zen of the United States. residing at Cheshire, in the county of Ontario and State of New York,have invented a new and useful YVire- Stretcher, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in wire-stretchers.

The object of the present invention is to simplify and improve the construction of wire-stretchers and to prevent the same, when fulcrumed on a post or other support, from turning in the hands of the operator.

The invention consists in the construction showing the lever in engagement with theblock. Fig. 3 is a detail view of a block.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates a bar having one end shaped into a handle and having its other endtapered and adapted to engage a post or other fulcruming-support in stretching a wire, which is clamped between a pivoted lever 2 and a block 3. The lever 2 and the block 3 are secured upon a plate 4 by bolts 5 and 6, which also secure the plate 4 to the bar 1. The plate has its end 7 bent over upon itself to provide a casing for the block 3, which has its end 8 provided with serrations or teeth,and the adjacent end 9 of the lever 2 is provided with similar serrations or teeth, the wire being secu rely grasped during stretching between the adjacent ends of the lever 2 and the block 3. To prevent the bars turning in the hands of the operator while stretching a wire, a guard 10 is provided, which is constructed of metal and has its inner end secured uponthe end 7 is pivoted to the plate and is movable and adapts itself to the wire and in a great measure prevents the latter being cut. of the block and the lever are small, the surface being merely roughened, and there is no danger of their cutting the wire. The bentover end. 7 of the plate extends slightly beyond the block to prevent a wire slipping laterally out of engagementrwith the block and the lever; but sufficient space is left between the end 7 and the edge of the lever,when the latter is arranged at right angles to the bar, to permit a wire to be readily removed.

What I claim is In a wire-stretcher, the combination of the bar, the plate secured to the bar and having one end 7 bent upon itself and forming a casing, the block provided at one end with a curved edge and having its other end pivoted to the plate and arranged between the same and the end 7, the lever fulcrumed on the plate. and arranged to engage the block, and

the guard having its inner end secured to theend 7 of the plate and having its outer end bent downward and secured to the bar, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own Ihave hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' ABRAM VAN WIE.

Witnesses:

JOHN RAINES, J r., D. V. BENHAM.-

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